A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
<div class="scrollme"> <div class="animateme" data-when="enter" data-from="0.5" data-to="0" data-opacity="0" data-translatex="-200" data-rotatez="90" > Yup, that’s all. </div> </div> ScrollMe is a jQuery plugin for adding simple scrolling effects to web pages. As you scroll down the page ScrollMe can scale, rotate, translate and change the opacity of elements on the page. It’s easy to set up and …
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<div data-sr="enter left please, and hustle 20px"> Foo </div> <div data-sr="wait 2.5s and then ease-in-out 100px"> Bar </div> <div data-sr="enter bottom and scale up 20% over 2s"> Baz </div> <script src=’/js/scrollReveal.min.js’></script> <script> window.sr = new scrollReveal(); </script> Just add data-sr to an element, and it will reveal as it enters the viewport. The data-sr attribute …
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I set out to create a quick visual to summarize Flexbox when I run into these moments of pause in the future. I like to think of it as a little diagram (flow chart? decision tree-ish thing?) that is a cheatsheet…based on cheatsheets. (That’s only an extract, shown above) Flexbox Cheatsheet Cheatsheet →
Heydon Pickering: Despite its irreverent name and precarious form, the lobotomized owl selector is no mere thought experiment for me. It is the result of ongoing experimentation into automating the layout of flow content. The owl selector is an “axiomatic” selector with a voracious purview. As such, many will be hesitant to use it, and …
The idea of having a screen full of icons, representing independent apps, that need to be opened to experience them, is making less and less sense. The idea that these apps sit in the background, pushing content into a central experience, is making more and more sense. That central experience may be something that looks …
JS Bin Great JSBin by Jake Archibald, showcasing 4 ways to vertically center elements in CSS. Technique 2 has my preference: .technique-2 { position: absolute; height: auto; top: 50%; -webkit-transform: translateY(-50%); transform: translateY(-50%); } The great thing about CSS transforms is that the percentages are referenced to the element’s width/height
Since PHP 5.6, the use of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated. Now, I’m not using this so I’m in the clear, or at least I thought I was … The default value for always_populate_raw_post_data in PHP 5.6 is doing more harm than good. Perfectly good code will spit out that error whenever it receives a request that …
You are bad at giving technical interviews. Yes, you. You’re looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company. Without changing anything about your applicant pool, you can hire different people and your company will do better and you will enjoy your job more. A must read for …